Pregnancy
Baby Loss Poems
Losing a baby is one of the most heartbreaking experiences imaginable, and words often fall short when trying to express the depth of your pain or to let someone know you’re there to support them.
…Sometimes, a heartfelt poem is all we have to offer.
Below are some of our most treasured baby loss poems that we hope provide you with comfort and understanding.
1. “The Star They Couldn’t Keep”
You were a comet—bright, brief,
a streak of “what if” through the black.
They measured you in weeks, not years,
but grief has no math for that.
Your name is a hum in the hollow of my throat,
a lullaby sung to the moon.
They say time stitches wounds, but I wear your absence
like a constellation—a map of the almost,
the nearly, the too soon.
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2. “A Garden of What Might Have Been”
I planted your laughter in the soil of my ribs,
watered it with tears that never bloomed.
Your nursery? A room with no door,
where tiny socks gather dust in the gloom.
They call it a “loss”—as if I misplaced you
like keys or a ring. But you’re here:
in the ache of my arms, in the milk that still dries,
in the first cry that never pierced the air.
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3. “The Quietest Heartbeat”
I trace the echo of you on ultrasound screens—
a flicker they framed as “gone.”
Your kicks were earthquakes in a world they couldn’t feel,
a drumbeat I march to, alone.
I am a museum of might-have-beens:
your first steps, your first word, your first fall.
But love doesn’t need breath to breathe,
and motherhood? It outlives it all.
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